I'm currently at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard for the opening conference of the new, NSF-funded International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policymaking led by Peter Shane of Ohio State and Stephen Coleman of Leeds. The group consists of 17 members from around the world; a great mix of senior and junior colleagues with a diverse range of interests and concerns. The meeting has been extremely interesting and fruitful so far, with an excellent programme of future events and concrete outputs, including a special issue of the journal I/S and a jointly-authored book to follow. A list of the participants:

Professor Peter M. Shane, The Ohio State University, Moritz College of LawStephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication, University of LeedsSteven J. Balla, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.Patrizia Bertini, independent practitioner and Researcher, European Internet Accessibilità Observatory, Manerbio, ItalyAndrew Chadwick, Royal Holloway College, University of LondonSungsoo Hwang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of PittsburghDavid Lazer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard UniversityJeffrey Lubbers, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C.Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, University of Technology at Compiègne, FranceBeth Noveck, New York Law SchoolKerrie Oakes, Ph.D. Candidate, Griffith University, Queensland, AustraliaOren Perez, Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, IsraelVincent Price, Annenberg School for Communication, University of PennsylvaniaAlicia Schatteman, Ph.D. candidate, The State University of New Jersey at Newark, NJPolona Picman Štefancic, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaPeter L. Strauss, Betts Professor of Law, Columbia UniversityScott Wright, De Montfort University, Leicester, England.